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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Re: a solution for voice clips (talkbox/UI)Re: a solution for voice clips (talkbox/UI)
From: Brian Wolven <brian.wolven_at_verizon.net>
Date: Sat, 06 Mar 2004 02:45:39 -0500 [IDC]Dragon wrote: > Hello, > > the topic of blind usage brought me into the field of text-to-speach > converters. > > I learned about the Microsoft Speech API (SAPI), which makes it very easy to > program talking applications, but sounds pretty crappy. I have made a first > command line program. All it does is "speak" the text of the first command > line argument into a wav file. This can be useful to make Talkbox clips in an > automated way, recursively across the whole disk if you like and if somebody > makes a Perl script for it (hint, wink). > My program is here: > http://joerg.hohensohn.bei.t-online.de/archos/speech/speak > I don't know if this runs on a plain standard Windows box, maybe you need to > install some SAPI runtime: > http://www.microsoft.com/speech/download/sdk51/ > > > The best speech is done by AT&T Natural Voices. I have no program which uses > it, but there's an interactive web demo: > http://www.naturalvoices.att.com/demos/ > Just an idea: would it be possible to abuse this demo and harvest the wav > files it generates, in an automated way? I have no web programming skills, > maybe somebody else can look behind the scenes. Here is an interesting set of samples for comparison of various TTS engines. The Voiceware TTS engine sounds pretty good, too, but I don't know how you'd get hold of it. http://www.tmaa.com/tts/comparison_USEng_telephony.htm _______________________________________________ http://cool.haxx.se/mailman/listinfo/rockbox Received on 2004-03-06 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |